John Hayes MP :: Welcome
Hello I am John Hayes. I have enjoyed the privilege of representing constituents since I was elected as the Member for the Wairarapa Electorate in the 2005 General Election.
So welcome to my website. I hope you find it interesting and informative about me and what I can offer as your local MP.
I have come to know many of you during my travels across the electorate or in my offices in Masterton or Dannevirke. A part of my work that I enjoy is meeting you in my constituent clinics – an opportunity for me to assist you with difficulties or problems.
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John Hayes
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From the House: 18 August 2010
Sunday morning; Waipukurau is in the grip of cold wintery rain. A contrast to Wednesday when I was last in the town, then bathed in sun. Pity the lambs and calves dropping on to the sodden Takapau Plain. I drove past lots of them yesterday en route to the Waipawa Ball held in celebration of the town’s 150th birthday. And what a wonderful celebration it was too. I’ve not seen the Gay Gordon’s (or should it be the Happy Gordon’s in our PC world?) danced since secondary school . . . [Read More]
I’ve been out and about as usual over the past fortnight. Many constituents do not realise that the electorate stretches from Waipawa in the north to Ngawi in the south. So a lot of driving is required to meet constituents and attend functions. Over the past week I visited Waipukurau, Norsewood and Dannevirke last Friday to meet constituents. I canvassed businesses in the southern towns on Saturday and then travelled back to Dannevirke on Sunday for an RSA function . . . [Read More]
With the school holidays behind us Parliament resumed yesterday for a three-week session requiring me to be in Wellington each week. I will be available to constituents in the north of the electorate as I’m visiting Waipukurau and Dannevirke on Friday 23 July. Call my toll free number 0800 2 HAYES if you would like an appointment to meet with me . . . [Read More]
I passed through Singapore last week for three hours while travelling to Manila to represent the Government at the inauguration of newly elected President Noynoy Aquino. A copy of Singapore’s daily Straits Times, carried estimates of Singapore’s growth for the next year. They were in the range of 9 per cent to 13 per cent. Elsewhere in the paper, India’s growth rate was projected at 9 per cent. Forecasts in New Zealand have us growing at less than 3 per cent. John Key is absolutely right to set our economic direction towards Asia. We need to achieve much stronger growth if we are to close our income gap with Australia . . . [Read More]
Spare a thought for the 160 workers being laid off at the Bernard Matthews plant in Waipukurau this week. The actions being taken at the plant reflect lower sheep numbers and the fact that throughout New Zealand there is more processing capacity than there are animals to process. I think it is inevitable that we will see ongoing restructuring within the industry until processing capacity and stock numbers are rebalanced. Still it’s a bad time of the year to find work so I am very grateful to Rose Edwards and her team at Work and Income in Waipukurau for the excellent job they are doing helping people to find alternative work or register for benefit help... [Read More]
Closure of Advanced Foods: Press Release - 16 June 2010
Most of us understand that our collective wealth depends on our export income. If we are going to have money to buy drugs like Herceptin to treat cancer, then we need to earn that money by exporting items made in New Zealand. So it was pleasing that the annual trade balance for the year ended April 2010 was a surplus of $161 million. This is the first annual trade surplus recorded since July 2002. The trade balance for the April 2010 month was a surplus of $656 million or 16.5 per cent of the value of exports. This compares with an average April trade deficit of 0.6 per cent of exports for the previous 10 years... [Read More]
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